From Machair to Mountains : Archaeological Survey And Excavation in South Uist.

From Machair to Mountains : Archaeological Survey And Excavation in South Uist.

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Author / Creator:Pearson, Michael Parker.
Imprint:Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (441 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Archaeological surveying -- Scotland -- South Uist.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scotland -- South Uist.
Archaeology and history -- Scotland -- South Uist.
Antiquities.
Archaeological surveying.
Archaeology and history.
Excavations (Archaeology)
South Uist (Scotland) -- Antiquities.
Scotland -- South Uist.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13416955
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ISBN:9781842178874
1842178873
Notes:Appendix English-Gaelic glossary of place-names.
Print version record.
Summary:South Uist in the Outer Hebrides has some of the best preserved archaeological remains within Britain and even further afield. Three distinct ecological zones - grassland machair plain, peaty blackland and mountains - each bear the imprint of human occupation over many millennia. The machair strip, long uninhabited, is filled with hundreds of settlement mounds, occupied from the Beaker period 4,000 years ago until a few centuries ago. The blacklands bear the traces of past farming practices as well as the remains of medieval settlements, more recent blackhouses and lochs containing duns, broch.
Other form:Print version: Pearson, Michael Parker. From Machair to Mountains : Archaeological Survey And Excavation in South Uist. Havertown : Oxbow Books, ©2012 9781842174517

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